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Audiobooks. bibliography biography Educational films. Internet videos. Videorecording.Castaneda, Carlos
Summary: Presents the author's observations on the mystical world of Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan Matus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 CASCastaneda, Carlos
Summary: "For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms. Originally published as Castaneda's master thesis in anthropology, Teachings documents Castaneda's supposed apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, Don Juan Matus. Dividing the work into two sections, Castaneda begins by describing Don Juan's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 299 CASLondoño, Ernesto
Summary: "When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier.His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center included four nighttime ceremonies during which participants imbibed a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Technology can now control the spiritual experience. This is a journey through the high-tech aids for psychological growth that are changing our world, while exploring the safety, authenticity and ethics of this new world. We already rely on technology to manage our health, sleep, relationships, and finances, so it's no surprise that we're turning to technological aids for the spiritual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204 WILSummary: This documentary examines the use of drugs and other substances in a quest for altered consciousness. Since the beginning of mankind, people have sought ways to reach a higher plane of existence and to that end have created rituals that included odd, toxic, and sometimes lethal substances. Ancient Drugs interviews psychologists, physicians, spiritualists, and historians to uncover the often...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Castaneda, Carlos
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 CASCastaneda, Carlos
Summary: In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the bring of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back. Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 CASMuraresku, Brian
Summary: "A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine throughout Western history, and the answer to a 2,000 year old mystery that could shake the Church to its foundations. The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity-exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. In the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204 MURCastaneda, Carlos
Summary: Carlos recollects more of the teachings of Don Juan, including the true importance and meaning of sorcery and magic, and the illusory nature of all realities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 CASRichardson, P. Mick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1986
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Summary: Blue Dreams charts psychiatry's journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Author Lauren Slater chronicles experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. In her analysis of each treatment, Slater asks how the drug was born, how it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018